Mailscanner suddenly started taking up 100% of available memory - Final Resolution

[Andrew Hoying]

Is there any way to get perl/mailscanner to reuse memory already allocated
to it?

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: Mailscanner suddenly started taking up 100% of available
memory - Final Resolution


> At 22:30 19/04/2002, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Andrew Hoying wrote:
> > > The problem was that some bug in either perl or mailscanner wasn't
> > > releasing some part of the memory required to do this and so every
> > > mail ate about 50MB of memory.
> >
> >perl doesn't return memory to the system once allocated within perl.
> >That's one reason mailscanner is configured to restart itself every now
> >and then as I understand it.
>
> That's precisely why I do it.
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